Monthly Archives: October 2008

Drawing lines on the map with the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control

Posted on Sunday, 26 October, 2008 by Colin Mackay

This uses the July 2008 CTP of the Windows Live tools. You can download the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio. In this post, we’re taking a look at drawing lines on the map with the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control. … Continue reading →

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Using a different map server with the Virtual Earth ASP.NET controls.

Posted on Sunday, 26 October, 2008 by Colin Mackay

This uses the July 2008 CTP of the Windows Live tools. You can download the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio. One of the interesting features of Virtual Earth is that it doesn’t have to use the maps provided by … Continue reading →

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Errors like these drive me insane

Posted on Wednesday, 22 October, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Today I was trying to fix up a website for one of our clients. I got the site out of source control but somehow or other it wouldn’t compile. I’m not going to talk about the fact it didn’t compile … Continue reading →

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Attendees Map

Posted on Sunday, 19 October, 2008 by Colin Mackay

At Scottish Developers we ask for a partial postcode on our feedback forms to get an idea of how far people travel to get to our events. We’ve not really done an awful lot with this information so far, but … Continue reading →

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Using PushPins with the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control

Posted on Friday, 17 October, 2008 by Colin A. Mackay

This uses the July 2008 CTP of the Windows Live tools. You can download the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio. In this post, we’re taking a look at using pushpins with the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control. We have a … Continue reading →

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Hug a developer

Posted on Friday, 17 October, 2008 by Colin Mackay
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Finding things with Virtual Earth

Posted on Monday, 13 October, 2008 by Colin Mackay

This uses the July 2008 CTP of the Windows Live tools. You can download the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio. This is a very introductory post just to show how to find things using the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control. … Continue reading →

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Method hiding or overriding – or the difference between new and virtual

Posted on Friday, 10 October, 2008 by Colin Mackay

When developing applications it is very important to understand the difference between method hiding and method overriding. By default C# methods are non-virtual. If you are a Java developer this may come as a surprise. This means that in C# … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Surface

Posted on Friday, 10 October, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Last weekend I was in Reading for the UK and Ireland MVP Open Day. And one of the highlights of the day was being invited to the Microsoft Technology Center at Microsoft’s Thames Valley Park campus and to able to … Continue reading →

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